KCPD: Eyes found at Northland gas station not human

Service station employee found eyes in box on trash bin

Kansas City police said they are no longer investigating after a set of eyes were found in a container at a Northland gas station.

Police said the eyeballs were not human; they likely were from a pig. And they added that no crime was committed.

Police said they were called to a Conoco service station at Northwest 112th Street and North Ambassador Drive late Wednesday by a worker who found a package on top of the trash bin.

"I noticed a box sitting on top of a trash can," said worker Latishia McClure. "All it was was a cardboard box that said, 'Keep refrigerated' on it and I opened it up, there's a cooler inside and inside that cooler was a little box."

Police said the package was a cardboard box with wrapping stating, "keep refrigerated." Inside was a medical cooler and inside it was a sealed package containing eyes.

"I just kinda backed up and was like, uh, maybe I should report this," McClure said.

Investigators said there is an eye bank located on North Ambassador Drive. Police said they contacted that eye bank, along with several others in the area, including regional hospitals without success.

Surveillance video showed that two men in a blue Toyota with Nebraska plates left the container.

The discovery was the talk of the gas station for the rest of the morning.

"They said there was eyeballs in the trash can," said customer Andrew Thomas. "Uh, I decided not to eat lunch here."

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